Exploring Expect
A Tcl-based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Programs
By Don Libes
602 pages, ISBN: 1-56592-090-2, $29.95 (US)

Expect is quickly becoming a part of every UNIX user's toolbox. It allows
you to automate telnet, ftp, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of other
applications that normally require human interaction. Using Expect to
automate these applications will allow you to speed up tasks and, in many
cases, solve new problems that you never would have even considered
before.

For example, you can use Expect to test interactive programs with no
changes to their interfaces. Or wrap interactive programs with Motif-like
front-ends to control applications by buttons, scrollbars, and other
graphic elements with no recompilation of the original programs. You don't
even need the source code! Expect works with remote applications, too. Use
it to tie together Internet applications including telnet, archie, ftp,
gopher, and mosaic.

Don Libes is the creator of Expect as well as the author of this book. In
Exploring Expect, he provides a comprehensive tutorial on all of Expect's
features, allowing you to put it immediately to work on your problems. In
a down-to-earth and humorous style, he provides numerous examples of
challenging real-world applications and how they can be automated using
Expect to save you time and money.

Expect is the first of a new breed of programs based on Tcl, the Tool
Command Language that is rocking the computer science community. This book
provides an introduction to Tcl and describes how Expect applies Tcl's
power to the new field of interaction automation. Whether your interest is
in Expect or interaction automation or you simply want to learn about Tcl
and see how it has been used in real software, you will find Exploring
Expect a treasure trove of easy-to-understand and valuable information.
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